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新概念雙語:趕快躲起來:阿比蓋爾號暴風雨即將來臨

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摘要 小編給大家?guī)硇赂拍铍p語:趕快躲起來:阿比蓋爾號暴風雨即將來臨,希望對大家有所幫助。

你會給一場強大暴風雨起個什么名字?想不出來?沒關系。《隨身英語》告訴你英國人都喜歡給壞天氣起哪些名字。

課文內容

詞匯: Weather 天氣

Go home and shut all the windows because Abigail is coming! In this case, Abigail is not a very angry lady, but the name of a storm chosen by the public in an initiative by the UK weather service, the Met Office, and its Irish counterpart Met Eireann.

In the last few months they have compiled a list of names suggested by ordinary people. In alphabetical order, Barney is next, followed by Clodagh. You might find Katie down the line, and also Nigel.

The idea of giving peoples‘ names to storms is to make people more aware that bad weather is on its way – and it is more understandable than giving them the latitude and longitude. Following a convention by the US, no storms will be given names beginning with the less common letters: Q, U, X, Y and Z.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami has officially been naming the Atlantic‘s tropical cyclones since 1953 – men’s names were included in the 1970s. But the list is maintained and updated by the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency based in Geneva.

Names of storms considered too catastrophic are ‘retired’ and replaced. No more Katrina – the name of the devastating hurricane that killed nearly 2,000 in the US in 2005. Cyclones are upgraded to hurricanes if they reach 119km/h.

But what happens when there are too many storms in the world in a particular year? Julian Heming, tropical predictions scientist at the Met Office in the UK, explains: “If the remainder of the season is very active, it‘s not out of the question we’ll have to... start using letters from the Greek alphabet.”

詞匯表

storm 暴風雨

weather service 天氣服務機構(此處指英國氣象中心)

to compile 編輯,編纂

alphabetical order 按照英文字母表順序

latitude 緯度

longitude 經度

convention 常規(guī),習慣,規(guī)定

hurricane 颶風

tropical 熱帶的

cyclone 龍卷風,氣旋

meteorological 氣象的,氣象學的

catastrophic 毀滅性的

upgraded 被提高、升級

season 季節(jié)

測驗與練習

1 閱讀課文并回答問題。

1 Who is Abigail?

2 Why are storms given names?

3 True or False? The name Katie was taken off the list after a hurricane with this name caused great devastation.

4 Why won‘t we see a hurricane called Quentin?

5 What happens if they run out of names any particular year?

2 請你在不參考課文的情況下完成下列練習。從每個表格中選擇一個意思合適的單詞填入句子的空格處。

1 Have you heard the news? The cyclone is stronger now and it has turned into _________.

a storm a season latitude and longitude a hurricane

2 A UN agency in Geneva _________ the list of names of cyclones in the world.

upgrades retires updates replaces

3 Barney and Nigel are names of storms suggested _________ people in the UK.

for at of by

4 Don‘t worry。 You don’t have to rush home。 This is just _________ storm, not a cyclone!

a catastrophic a devastating an ordinary an Abigail

5 Iceland experiences long summer nights due to its northern _________.

hurricane latitude longitude meteorology

答案

1 閱讀課文并回答問題。

1 Who is Abigail?

Abigail is not a person – it‘s the first name chosen by the public in a list of names for storms.

2 Why are storms given names?

Storms are given names to make people more aware that bad weather is on its way – names are easier to remember than geographical positions.

3 True or False? The name Katie was taken off the list after a hurricane with this name caused great devastation.

False. The name taken off the list – or ‘retired’ – was Katrina.

4 Why won‘t we see a hurricane called Quentin?

No storms are given names starting with Q, U, X, Y and Z, following a convention in the US.

5 What happens if they run out of names in any particular year?

The meteorologists might use names starting with letters of the Greek alphabet.

2 請你在不參考課文的情況下完成下列練習。從每個表格中選擇一個意思合適的單詞填入句子的空格處。

1 Have you heard the news? The cyclone is stronger now and it has turned into a hurricane.

2 A UN agency in Geneva updates the list of names of cyclones in the world.

3 Barney and Nigel are names of storms suggested by people in the UK.

4 Don‘t worry。 You don’t have to rush home。 This is just an ordinary storm, not a cyclone!

5 Iceland experiences long summer nights due to its northern latitude.

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